Beef/Pork Recipes (Most Popular)
Purchase cubed round or chuck steak. If you can, ask the butcher to cube it again for further tenderness.
My mother is from Brasil (and she spells it with an "S"), so I grew up on this dish. She says that the real, good stuff has Portuguese sausage (linguica), bacon, and fresh pork as well as the ham-hocks. But when she got to the states linguica wasn't easy to be found, so she used pepperoni. Anyway, this recipe is how she made it for us.
NOTE: I prefer smoked ham shanks, which taste the same but have more meat and less fat (the hocks have the skin on, shanks don't). Mom would leave the skin from the ham-hocks floating around in the beans so you could eat that too, but I think that's just nasty.
OR you could use a ham bone—leftover from a nice ham (like at Christmas time or something)—to flavor your beans.
This is just a basic, simple recipe. I've seen recipes that use a cup or so of orange juice; recipes that add sauteed onions and garlic at the end (instead of using dried onion); even recipes that add bell peppers and other veggies.
Finally stumbling on a blend of pork & beef my picky son will eat, I used it for making meatballs instead of buying the packaged stuff. This is now my basic meatball ready to be seasoned per specific needs.
I eat and cook for just myself, you can multiply the ingredients proportionately for most any size family.
I wanted to enjoy a typical lasagna without the noodles, so this is what I came up with. It's incredibly easy! I used all organic ingredients with this recipe.
Fool your omnivore friends with this delicious vegan chili, the eggplant makes it extra hardy!
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